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The Mosquito Coast

Movie
1986
1h 59m
PG
English
Drama, Adventure
User Score: 
6.5
Critic Score: 
64
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Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
The Mosquito Coast Poster

The Mosquito Coast

PG
Movie
1986
1h 59m
English
Drama, Adventure
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
Rating
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6.5
IMDB
The Mosquito Coast (1986) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
64

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Harrison Ford
Allie Fox
Helen Mirren
Mother Fox
River Phoenix
Charlie Fox
Martha Plimpton
Emily Spellgood
Andre Gregory
Reverend Spellgood
Dick ONeill
Mr. Polski
Michael Rogers
Francis Lungley
Hilary Gordon
April Fox
Rebecca Gordon
Clover Fox
Jason Alexander
Hardware Clerk
Butterfly McQueen
Ma Kennywick
Tiger Haynes
Mr. Semper
William Newman
Captain Smalls
Directed By: Peter Weir
Written By: Paul Schrader (Screenplay), Paul Theroux (Novel)

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Narate says...
4 years ago
>"Look around ya, how did America get this way? Land of promise, land of opportunity. Give us the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Have a Coke. Watch TV. Go on welfare. Get free money. Turn to crime - crime pays in this country. Why do they put up with it? Why do they keep coming? Look around you Charlie, this place is a toilet." I expected a The Swiss Family Robinson style story, but got more of a mixture of that with Falling Down. At the beginning of the movie I felt like Harrison Ford was making sense but by the end I was over it. I guess that was the point of the movie, but man talk about a frustrating journey.
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miguelreina says...
4 years ago
Underestimated, with the perspective of time we can understand the ambivalence of a character with an obsessive idealism. "Tell him he's a dangerous man", his son is warned. As narrator, maturity gives him a better perspective: "When I wasn't afraid to love him, the world seemed endless". PW directs in favour of a non-perfect story (the character of Mother), but builds an extraordinary fable about modern society.
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Spiritualized Kaos says...
2 years ago
A crazy inventor drags his whole family behind him.
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gahudnall-deleted-1490229630 says...
11 years ago
I don't know why Ford said this was his favorite movie to make - it was DEFINITELY not mine to watch. Very hard and very difficult to see a man treat his wife and children like that. Good lessons in how to be better.
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Vincent
6 years ago
**Disney for Anarchists**

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